Master of the Light and Darkness

By: Esyphelon

The Finals begin...Marik defeated?

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioih Konami does. I do, however own all rights to Daniel Esyphelon and he will only be used with my permission.

Me and Yugi's gang, plus Bakura, made our way to Kaiba Corp. HQ; which we had figured out to be the location of the finals. The progress was slow seeing as the group kept getting involved in pointless conversation that could be postponed for a later time.

"ENOUGH!" I shouted getting everyones attention. "Please wait until we get to the stadium for all your pointless chatter." I told them.

The trip was pretty uneventful after that, because I really was a scary person when I wanted to be and right now I could scare evil itself into fleeing like a baby. When we arrived at the Stadium all we found was a half completed piece of scrap not worth my time.

"What the hell does Kaiba think he's trying to pull? I will not duel in a place like this!" I said in vehement dissatisfaction as to the place of our supposed finals.

"Well I was thinking you would take a second to look behind the scenery." Said a voice that could only be Seto Kaiba's

"Nice to see you again Seto. It's been a while since we last had the chance to duel." I said while the first semi smile I had allowed myself in the tournament planted iitself on my face.

"Your sense of style certainly hasn't changed much Daniel." He said, tone condescending.

"You're the one to talk, at least I don't look like a mafia hitman." I said laughing.

"Will you guys stop palling around so we can get on with this?" This came from, you guessed it, vegetable brained Wheeler.

"Yes I agree." Said a voice from the darkness I clearly remembered.

"Marik well if it isn't the little boy who has a deep affection for women's accessories." I said drawing a snicker from Kaiba.

"Watch it fool or I might just banish you to the Shadow Realm!" he shouted, clearly embarassed by my earlier comment.

"You wish Marik you could never beat me before what makes you think you have a chance now?" I asked the young egyptian maniac with too much 'bling'.

"My Winged Dragon of Ra will see to your destruction fool!" he shouted back, a inner rage glowing in his eyes.

"Enough." Kaiba siad. "Our ride is here." he stated pointing to a giant blimp.

"Wait one of us is missing." I told him.

"Tell it to someone who cares. I want to get this going." Kaiba said.

"No need I am here." A female voice I distinctly remembered came out of the shadows of the deep twilight. She paused next to me and whispered, "Please don't reveal my identity just yet. I have my reasons I need to stay hidden,"

"Fine your safe till you see fit to reveal your true motives here." I told her, my voice no higher than hers had been.

"Everyone participating in the finals please board the blimp." Kaiba said, quite annoyed he was being ignored at his own tournament.

We all stepped aboard as ordered, with a few problems with Yugi's "Cheerleaders."

Soon Kaiba made an announcement. "You have all been handed cards with numbers on them. These numbers will determine who you will duel in the first round of the finals." The numbers were: 1 Daniel, 2 Joey, 3 Yugi, 4 Kaiba, 5 Ishizu, 6 Mai, 7 Ragnarock, 8 Marik. "Now we will determine the first match by lottery." Kaiba said as the lottery machine began, the first number landed on a one, then the second one landed on a 8.

"Well Marik it looks like you'll get the opportunity to back up your talk with some walk." I told him.

"Likewise fool, let's see if you have what it takes to defeat me." He said, his eyes stil glowing with all of that inner hatred.

Kaiba led us up to the top of the blimp where a dueling arena awaited or arrival. Marik and I wasted little time and quickly extended our duel disks into ready positions.

"Since you like to drees like a woman you can go first." I told him.

"You will come to regret that Daniel. Now let the Shadow Game begin!" He shouted as the mysterious purple fog of the Shadow Realm surounded us, and man was he angry his violet eyes were set on fire. Glowing with a light that could only be born of rage incarnate.

We both drew five cards then Marik picked up his sixth. "I will play Slime Production Furnace! Then I play Nightmare Steel Cage preventing either of us from attacking for 2 turns. It's your turn Daniel."

Marik: 8000

Daniel: 8000

"Well let's see how bad I can hurt you on the first turn." I looked at my hand and smirked. "I play Painful Choice! Allowing me to take five cards from my deck and let you pick one that goes to my hand and the rest are sent to the graveyard." I said as I pulled out an Archfiend Soldier Mephist the Infernal General Two Homonculus The Alchemeistic Being and Mad Dog of Darkness. "Now choose which one I can keep."

"Take Mephist." He said pondering what I was thinking.

From the side lines Joey said, "Whoa, how can he throw all those monsters away?"

"Watch and learn Wheeler." I shouted back. "I sacrifice my Mad Dog of Darkness and my Homonculus from my graveyard to summon Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the beginning! Since nightmare Steel Cage is on the field I have to end my turn by setting two cards face-down." I said as two cards and a knight dressed in Silvery-blue armor with a bright gold trim appeared on my field.

"Now my factory turns our a slime token!" Marik Shouted. "Since I can't attack or summon I end turn with one card face-down." He said as a card appeared behind the newly formed slime.

"I know what your doing your preparing the field for your God card, but your field will be empty before that third token hits the field. I draw and activate Mystical Space Typhhon to destroy your factory! Now my Soldier will use his effect to remove your token from play. End turn." I said as a tornado destroyed his factory and his slime dissapeared.

"I draw and summon a mnster in defense mode end turn." he said a a card appeared on his field and the cage shattered.

"I set two more cards face-down and destroy your monster with my soldier! Now he will attack a second time!" I shouted as my soldier flew threw the air destroying his monster, but when he struck again was blocked by air.

"I activate Dark Wall of Air! This prevents all damage for this turn." Marik exclaimed.

"End turn." I said biting back on a scowl.

"I set one card face-down and play Swords of Revealing Light! You may go Daniel" He said. Smirking as though he had won the duel already.

"This isn't over yet Marik I set one monster face down and remove your monster from play!" I shouted as my Soldier opened a portal that sucked away his monster.

"Now I play my spell card Dimension fusion this returns all legally special summonable monsters to the field for a mere 2000 life points!" He said as a strange freight car appeared on his side of the field while my Mad Dog of Darkness and Homonculus the Alchemistic being re-aappeared. "Next I paly the magic card Machine duplication! This allows me to summon my other two Bokoichi the Runaway Freight Cars! Then I offer them for my Winged Dragon of Ra!" He said as he spoke the chant required to awaken Ra.

Daniel: 8000

Marik: 6000

"Heh that thing is weak it only has 1500 attack points. Surely you can do better oh great Marik" I said mocking him.

"Oh but I can, behold another of Ra's abilities it allows me to sacrifice all but one of my life points and add it to Ra's attack power!" Marik said with a triumphant smirk on his face. "Now Ra remove Black Luster Soldier from my sight!" He said as Ra let out a beatifull beam of yellow light, that destroyed my Black Luster Soldier.

"Hey Daniel that's some pretty lousy dueling you may call me stupid, but at least I'd keep my strongest monster safe." Joey said from the sidelines.

"Wheeler do you truly believe that was my strongest monster? If so then think again I have a monster in my deck that will win this duel as soon as I draw it." I said and Marik's face turned from a smirk into a scowl.

"Ha! You still think you have a chance against my dragon? Come on bring your best monster I don't care Ra is invincible!" Marik Said his as his smirk re-appeared.

Daniel:3501

Marik: 1

"While Ra may be invincible attacking a monster is not the only way to beat it, Behold." I told him.I drew. "Heh, you wanted to see my strongest card? Well here it is meet my Chaos Emperor Dragon-Envoy of the End!" I said knowing I'd won as my giant Dragon appeared with his metallic blue armor shining.

"Hah! What are you going to do with that thing? It's no stronger than your Soldier was." Marik said smirk still not gone from his face.

"I'll show you what makes him so special. Chaos Emperor Dragon Apocalypse Blast!" I shouted as my dragon let out a huge amount of energy covering the field in a blinding white light. "My dragon allows me to pay 1000 of my life points to destroy every card on our fields and in our hands and deal you 300 damage for each card I destroy! It's over Marik!"

Everyone else was stunned to say the least. They all thought it would be the Pharaoh and Marik in the final match, but here I come and demolish him in the first round like he's a fly under my boot.

"Now for your penalty game Marik! I will balance your hatred with the kindness I remember from your time in my shop back in Egypt!" I said as I pulled out my Millennium Scales.

"The first duel of the Batle City finals is now over. The next duelists will be chosen shortly." One of Kaiba's grunts announced shortly after our duel.

Since I didn't really much care for socializing with anyone here. Except maybe Kaiba, I head back to my room to await the next duel, and to my surpirse who do I find there but the infamous Shadi that got me tied up in this in the first place.

"Hello Daniel you have come far since we last met." He said to me.

"So, why have you graced me with your presence?" I asked him in response.

"To tell you the truth there is a prophecy that has only recently been excavated from a tomb in Egpyt. This prophecy states that from the land of the Nile a man will rise to save the world from a great darkness, but the man will not be a great hero, for he is just as evil as he is good. He will have two companions in his quest, and all three of them will carry items that can control the darkness in those around them." He said.

"Well that's all well and good, but why inform me of an important Egyptian discovery. . . unless, no it can't be! I am not this so called man that will save the world from darkness all I want to do is run my shop in Egypt and have a nice life." I said incredulously.

"That is exactly why I pegged you as the supposed hero to balance the forces of good and evil because you are not a hero that must destroy all evil in his way you yourself have done some things that you will forever regret, again proving tha you are this man." Shadi said.

"Then Shadi I have a question for you. How did I beat Marik when it says that the Pharaoh is supposed to save the world from his menace?"

"If you will notice the inscription only says the Pharoah will save the world not what he will save it from." Shadi said.

Just as Shadi said that the speaker came on saying that the next duel would be in five minutes and that all duelists should make their way to the lottery machine.

"I trust this is not the last time we will meet Shadi, but I would eccomend next time you give me straighter answers." I said as I walked out of the room.

I arrived in the lobby of the airshipjust as the machine started randomely popping out the balls that would determine the duelists. The first pale green orb came out as a 7, the second one came out as a 2.

"The second duel of the Battle City Finals will be Ragnarock vs. Joey Wheeker please proceed to the duel ring.

Next time it's Joey vs. Ragnarock in a no holds barred match.